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Prussian officers.
We know not whether it is true that the King of Prussia has given two years leave of absence to sixty officers of the Prussian Army for the purpose of offering their services to the United States.
If so, it is an unfriendly act, and presents a marked contrast to the strictly neutral position taken by Greet her subjects, whether in military or civil life, from taking up arms in the American contest.
We are not surprised; however, that a despetic military power like Prussia should sympathize with a military despotism like that which Lincoln is endeavoring to establish in America, and it may be that the system of white slavery, which, no apprehensions of these military adventurers — these Dugald Dalgetty's--whom Lincoln is importing from Europe to lead his Hessians against the Southern States.
Prussia ought to know by her own history the power of a patriotic people to defend their own firesides against the greatest odds, and if she does not know it, her deputie